COVID provoked a multi-dimensional crisis that overwhelmed existing concepts of social resilience that focus on a singular crisis. This volume proposes an alternative. In The Coronavirus Crisis and Its Teachings: Steps towards Multi-Resilience Roland Benedikter and Karim Fathi first describe the pluri-dimensional characteristics of the Coronavirus crisis. Then they draw the pillars for a more "multi-resilient" Post-Corona world including socio-political recommendations on how to generate it. The Coronavirus crisis has proven to be a bundle crisis consisting of multiple, interconnected crisis dimensions. Before Corona, most concepts of a "resilient society" implied a rather isolated focus on only one crisis at a time. Future preparedness in the 21st century will require a multi- and transdisciplinary risk-management concept that the authors call "multi-resilience". "Multi-resilience" means to systematically enhance the universal resilience competencies of societies, such as collective intelligence or overall responsiveness, making them appliable to pluri-dimensional crisis contexts. If the Coronavirus crisis in retrospect will have contributed to implementing multi-resilience, then it will ultimately have contributed to progress. This volume includes a Foreword by Jan Nederveen Pieterse and an Afterword by Manfred B. Steger.

The book, deliberately written in generally understandable language for all interested readers, paints a unique, transdisciplinary overall picture of resilience as a national and international social factor of our time. It shows that in terms of socio-political significance, the concept of resilience is in no way inferior to the older, hitherto dominant concepts of sustainability and development; indeed, it actively complements them, in some cases contradicts them, but also completes them. Resilience as a societal factor involves all sectors, such as politics, the economy, science and civil society, and thus represents an indispensable frame of reference in the overarching recent debate on the "learning society". "Fathi analyzes the still little-tapped topic of "societal resilience" from entirely new perspectives and with a stimulating thematic breadth. A must-read for anyone who wants to grasp this topic holistically." Prof. Dr. Uwe Schneidewind

Das Buch, bewusst in allgemeinverstandlicher Sprache fur alle interessierten Leserinnen und Leser geschrieben, zeichnet ein einmaliges, transdisziplinares Gesamtbild von Resilienz als nationalem und internationalem Gesellschaftsfaktor unserer Zeit. Es zeigt, dass der Resilienzbegriff an gesellschaftspolitischer Bedeutung den alteren, bislang dominierenden Konzepten der Nachhaltigkeit und Entwicklung in nichts nachsteht, ja diese aktiv erganzt, teilweise widerspricht, aber auch vervollstandigt. Resilienz als Gesellschaftsfaktor bezieht alle Sektoren, wie z. B. die Politik, Wirtschaft, Wissenschaft und Zivilgesellschaft, mit ein und stellt damit einen unverzichtbaren Referenzrahmen in der ubergeordneten neueren Debatte um die "lernende Gesellschaft" dar. "Fathi analysiert das noch wenig erschlossene Thema der "gesellschaftlichen Resilienz" aus voellig neuen Perspektiven und in einer anregenden thematischen Breite. Ein Muss fur jeden, der dieses Thema ganzheitlich erfassen will." Prof. Dr. Uwe Schneidewind